This paper explores the educational potential of sound as a political and emotional device, focusing on prosody as the embodied form of voice. Starting from a musical transcription for solo violin of a 1933 speech by Hitler, the article presents a pedagogical experience grounded in critical listening and emotional mapping. Using an interdisciplinary approach—interweaving pedagogy, geography, sound studies and neuroscience—the research reveals that the instrumental version triggers more intense bodily emotions than the original speech. The findings support the idea that prosody alone can stim-ulate critical awareness. Sound, detached from semantics, becomes an educational tool to interrogate voice, dismantle rhetorical power, and ethically inhabit the sonic world.

Abitare i suoni delle vibrazioni. Percorsi di mappatura sonora tra spazi, emozioni e narrazioni educative

Lorena Rocca
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2025

Abstract

This paper explores the educational potential of sound as a political and emotional device, focusing on prosody as the embodied form of voice. Starting from a musical transcription for solo violin of a 1933 speech by Hitler, the article presents a pedagogical experience grounded in critical listening and emotional mapping. Using an interdisciplinary approach—interweaving pedagogy, geography, sound studies and neuroscience—the research reveals that the instrumental version triggers more intense bodily emotions than the original speech. The findings support the idea that prosody alone can stim-ulate critical awareness. Sound, detached from semantics, becomes an educational tool to interrogate voice, dismantle rhetorical power, and ethically inhabit the sonic world.
2025
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